"Erewhon’s Manhattan Beach expansion is a real dip into suburbia, even more so than Calabasas. The South Bay location is connected to an Office Depot and shares a shopping center with back-to-school favorites like Old Navy and Barnes & Noble. Not that that’s a deal breaker—there's ample parking, and if you’ve got a thing for real estate bros walking around in pleated khakis, you’ll leave satiated. But outside of that, the MB location is pretty by-the-books. The hot bar has no location-unique dishes, the smoothie bar is a total bottleneck, and despite the relatively large interior, the cash register area is cramped from all the people weaving through an aisle of vegan chocolate." - Brant Cox